As part of this year's Seattle Design Festival: Design in Health, we will have a day of design-thinking workshops.  The design leaders at Substantial have developed a hands-on workshop that draws inspiration from the festival's theme of health while teaching practical methodologies that are valuable to any design challenge, health or otherwise.

Cost $20 regular / $10 student

Register at Brown Paper Tickets

The workshop

Technology’s rapid pace of change often leads social and policy changes as systems and people stuck in old ways are incentivized to keep up. In order for healthcare to move forward, innovation and disruption will be key, and digital is the platform. Experience designers, interaction designers, and developers can use agile and lean methodologies to bring a working product to the market rapidly. This workshop will teach methods and offer real-time practice in navigating agile development in a collaborative, effective manner.

This workshop is for design students and professionals as well as individuals curious about design thinking and exploration. No experience or preparation is required.

The presenters

Ryan Harasyn heads Substantial’s Design practice from strategy to implementation. His background with user interactions and digital brand experiences crosses an extremely wide-range of environments.  Throughout his career, Ryan has designed user experiences for both physical and digital products. Starting his career designing products, Ryan progressed quickly into the digital space shaping branded products and experiences for clients large and small including: OptumHeatlh, Google, 3M, ReSound,

Steve Shapero, is a strategic, business-savvy technologist responsible for client delivery across all accounts at Substantial. Steve is also responsible for new business development and manages Substantial’s portfolio of accounts.

 This event is in partnership with Puget Sound SIGCHI and the Seattle Design Festival.